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| First-place Twins shoot for third straight win of Angels |
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08/23/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - The Minnesota Twins hope to increase their lead in the AL Central standings this evening, as they continue their season-long 14-game road trip with the third of four contests against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim from Angel Stadium. Minnesota, in the midst of its longest trek since 1969, continued to roll on Friday, as Glen Perkins and Dennys Reyes combined on a six-hit shutout to lift the Twins to a 9-0 win. Perkins (11-3) allowed just five hits while walking two and fanning three in e |
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| Lohse hopes to add to Braves' misery |
MLB Baseball |
08/23/2008 |
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| tarting the season at 12-2. He's allowed 36 hits and 21 runs over those five starts in 27 2/3 innings. One more win will equal the 29-year-old Californian's single-season career high, which he established in 2003 by going 14-11 in 33 starts with the Minnesota Twins. Lohse won 13 games with the Twins in 2002 and has won nine on three occasions, including 2004 and 2005 with the Twins and last season while splitting time with the Reds and Philadelphia Phillies. He is 2-1 in four career starts against the Braves w |
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| Rays keep pace in AL East, beat White Sox |
MLB Baseball |
08/23/2008 |
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| wo runs on seven hits in six innings while striking out five and walking five to pick up the win. Nick Swisher and Alexi Ramirez both has two-run home runs for the White Sox, who lost for the first time in six games and fell one-half game behind the Minnesota Twins in the AL Central. The Twins blanked the LA Angels of Anaheim, 9-0, on Friday. John Danks (10-6) surrendered three runs on seven hits in 6 1/3 innings en route to the loss. The southpaw struck out four and walked two in defeat. Trailing 2-0, the Ray |
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| White Sox keep piling on wins |
MLB Baseball |
08/22/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - It seems no matter how well the Chicago White Sox play, they can't quite shake those "piranhas" manager Ozzie Guillen calls the Minnesota Twins. This time last week, Chicago and Minnesota were deadlocked in a tie for first place in the American League Central. Since then, the White Sox have gone on to win five straight, and eight of nine overall. And for their merits, a measly half-game cushion over the second-place Twins, winners of three straight. An added element is the sheer dominance t |
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| Mussina tries again to bail out Yanks in opener with O's |
MLB Baseball |
08/22/2008 |
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| the New York offense with a three-run homer in the seventh. The Yankees, who have dropped four of their last seven, gave up a season-high 21 hits and suffered their worst margin of defeat on the season. They also fell six games behind Boston and the Minnesota Twins in the Al wild-card race. New York, which will be playing the fourth test of a six-game road trip tonight, is 4-10 in its last 14 away from home and has been outscored 84-53 in those contests. On the milestone front, Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter is |
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| Carmona leads Tribe into Lone Star State |
MLB Baseball |
08/22/2008 |
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| ree straight games against the Texas Rangers. Carmona, who jumped from one win in 2006 to 19 a year ago, was 4-2 after a 13-9 loss to the Rangers on May 23. He then spent the next two months on the shelf with a strained hip. He came back against the Minnesota Twins on July 26 and is just 1-3 in five comeback outings. Carmona picked up a tough-luck 4-3 loss in his last start after allowing just two earned runs in seven innings against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. It was just the second time in 54 career s |
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| Rockies send Hernandez to hill in opener with Reds |
MLB Baseball |
08/22/2008 |
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| third phase tonight, when the Colorado Rockies host the Cincinnati Reds in the initial game of a three-game weekend series at Coors Field in Denver. The former postseason hero with the Florida Marlins began this year in the American League with the Minnesota Twins, but was let go upon the return from injury of young phenom Francisco Liriano. He signed on with the Rockies shortly afterward and has made two subsequent starts, splitting a pair of decisions while allowing an unseemly 17 hits and 15 runs in just 8 |
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| Red Sox try to solve Blue Jays in Toronto |
MLB Baseball |
08/22/2008 |
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| his seventh setback in as many decisions, charged with three hits and five runs in just 2 1/3 frames. Following the game, Buchholz was optioned to Double-A Portland. Boston trails the Tampa Bay Rays by 4 1/2 games in the AL East and is tied with the Minnesota Twins for the lead in the wild card. Hoping to get the Red Sox back in the win column this evening will be newly- acquired Paul Byrd, who had a four-start winning streak stopped by the Blue Jays in his Boston debut on Saturday. Byrd surrendered four runs |
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| Twins edge Halos in 12 behind Baker, Span |
MLB Baseball |
08/22/2008 |
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| Anaheim, CA (MySportsbook) - Denard Span had two hits and drove in the go- ahead run in the 12th inning, as the Minnesota Twins edged the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, 2-1, in the opener of a four-game set. The Twins jumped ahead in the 12th inning off Justin Speier (1-7) as Nick Punto opened the frame with a triple. Carlos Gomez then went down swinging, but Span laced an RBI single into left field just out of the reach of a diving Chone Figgins at third. "With two strikes and a man on third, I had to make |
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| Lee leads Tribe in finale vs. Royals |
MLB Baseball |
08/21/2008 |
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| n 15 games -- 10 starts -- against Cleveland, allowing 61 hits and 27 earned runs in 58 2/3 innings. He strung together consecutive defeats against the Oakland Athletics and Chicago White Sox on July 28 and August 3, but has dropped a verdict to the Minnesota Twins and recorded a no-decision against the New York Yankees in his last two starts, allowing 15 hits and five earned runs in 11 2/3 innings. He is 5-6 in 15 road starts this season, posting a 4.30 ERA in 92 innings. On Wednesday, Franklin Gutierrez's th |
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